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ird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson.

A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. Dryden.

s of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

To burst. [Obs.] And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.

part or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

for Bursteth. [Obs.]

To burst. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.

t; value. Many suchlike "as's" of great charge. Shak. Back charge. See under Back, a. -- Bursting charge. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. -- Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), the old mode…

A burst of sound; a sudden explosion. Horrible claps of thunder. Hakewill.

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.

A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

To burst with a loud report; to explode. "Disploding engines." Young.

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

The act of bursting or springing apart. [R.] Boyle.

A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.